Little known Kaha Aden is another Somali-Italian female writer who has an unbounded ambition of fighting for the rights of Women in Somalia, but she is seemingly starting to hold the wrong end of the stick obviously she will fail if this is the way she has chosen to address Somali women issues.
During her interview with Kenya’s Daily Nation, she has disrespectfully started attacking both the tradition and culture of Somalis and Muslims.
In her Interview she has attacked the dressing code of the Somali women in Mogadishu saying that “the current mode of dressing where women cover their whole bodies leaving only a tiny opening for the eyes, is a survival tactics to save their bodies from violence”
By nature of both the Islamic culture and the Somali tradition, covering the body by Somali women is something very strong and deeply entrenched. The non-spoilt Somali women are by far known for their respect to date, by covering their bodies.
Whether they are living in the neighborhood of Minnesota without fear or in the darkened alleyways of deserted Mogadishu, the Somali women dress will stay forever.
It is not a right that they need from people like Kaha, but a respect they have cherished for years and one that they will pass on from generation to generation.
I believe such statements are very much derogatory, Kaha’s statements as per the report is simply a deviation from the Somali practice during this contemporary times or even old days.
I don’t know whether the writer is putting things she had not said, but all the while, if her interview is anything to go by, her mission is simply a faltered ambition seemingly aimed at propagating certain western ideas which are at the moment unwelcome in both the Islamic world and among the Somali populations.
You cannot fight for the right of women, when you are trying to interfere with the rights they are already enjoying and rights that are enshrined in their Islamic teachings unless you are indirectly telling Somali women to divert from their religion.
Kaha you are simply talking before you can even walk.
You can read the story about Kaha Aden which is based on her recent trip to Kenya clicking on this link.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
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About the author of Sobbing Somali
- Abdullahi Jamaa
- Wajir, Northeastern, Kenya
- Abdullahi Jamaa is a Kenyan freelance journalist with reporting experience especially from the devastated Horn of Africa region. You can contact him by emailing: abdullahijamac@yahoo.co.uk
This is typical Ayan Hirsi, But she has room to change her unacceptable ideologies. Kaha dont start that way please.
ReplyDeleteAbdullahi just like the way jobless youth live in many part of Kenya by forming their own community based organisation (CBO), youths and women group only to get a living out of it at the end of the day, Kaha know the truth about Islam and the need to cover our women body, However, dear Jamac this seems to been over shadow by the need of Kaha to face the economic challenges in the world and just way of attracting donator funds. On the other hand between the western culture where woman are viewed as an object of sex ie displaying their naked bodies in public or where they cover their bodies.
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